Osage Indians did not always
ride in limousines, squat in blankets among Grand Rapids furniture and
generally give a pathetically good imitation of nouveaux riches the
world over. Long before chance made them oil tycoons they had a Golden
Age. It is not of the prehistoric greatness of the Osages that Author
Mathews writes, nor of their bloated capitalist days, but of the time
when, still poor and still noble, they lived a benevolently restricted
life on the Osage reservation.